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Seriously, though. When I read Frierson’s piece, I found it a bit unsettling that these and other unfounded, gratuitous and divisive accusations were being bandied about without a shred of credible evidence to support them. But I took solace in my assumption that, in spite of her frequent use of “we” rather than “I,” Frierson’s views were not—could not be—representative of the attitudes of other members of her group...
This behavior, it turns out, is typical of Szpilman, on whose memoirs Roman Polanski, a survivor of Poland's wartime ghetto, has based his very good movie. Szpilman, portrayed with stoic grace by Adrien Brody, clings to every last shred of normality, despite confronting one of the great abnormalities in human history--the monstrous ghetto in which Warsaw's Jews were brutally forced to live...
Adopting the Staff’s dismal view, Bush and his evil Republican cohorts will always be the scapegoats for every social ill plaguing our economy. We should all be skeptical of dogma that calls for taxing Americans into oblivion and destroying every last shred of personal responsibility for one’s own welfare...
...records? And as to the FLA’s track record, they have yet to produce a single public report on any of their activities except in situations in factories already highly publicized by other advocacy groups—cases in which the FLA would have lost any last shred of credibility had they not produced a statement. Clearly, FLA membership cannot be considered a sufficient step towards ending the use of sweatshop labor to manufacture Harvard products...
...take the church's sexual teachings very seriously again. When so many church leaders could not treat even the raping of children as a serious offense, how can we trust them to tell us what to believe about the more esoteric questions of contraception, or homosexuality, or divorce? What shred of credibility do these men have when they look out at the pews and see those of us living in a world where our failings cannot be easily covered up by ecclesiastical power, or bought off with other people's money, or simply ignored? This gulf between us and them...